Method for producing wire articles



Nov. 17, 1936. DILLON 2,061,352

METHOD/F01? PRODUCING WIRE ARTICLES Filed May 21, 1934 EDMUND B; D/L'LON,

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UNITED STATES PATENT-OFFICE 1,061,352. 3 t 3 3 METHOD non momenta winnan'rrcnns n. niuon, Cleveland, Ohio, manor, to t The American Steel and'Wii-e Company of New Jersey, a corporation of NewJersey 1 Application May-21, 1934, Scrlal No. 726,811"

zclaims. (Cl..-91--70) v This invention is a method and apparatus for coating which would be hard"and non-contamiproducing wire articles protected against corrcnating. However, the priceoibale ties ismor'e sion by a'baked'coating, one of the objects being or less set, and it has been geherally thought to produce such articles in a very'cheap and eithat a baked coating could not be applied with! 5 fective manner. Other objects may be inferred. out entailing a financial loss to the. maker; The 5 The accompanying drawing schematically ilpresent invention permits the production of bale lustrates an example of the apparatus used. in tieshaving the desi'redbaked coating and which conjunction with the new method; may be produced at practically the same cost as This apparatus includes the nibination of a unprotected bale ties since-the heat required to 10 continuous wireannealing furnace I, a machine .bake the coating is that usually lost during the 10' 2 for continuously fabricating wire leaving the cooling of the wire,'which must always be anfurnace I into ,the desired articles, this machine .nealed.-- f a being a g t Such i tfl-hh from the The applicability of the apparatuspreviously mice 1 t the Wire relatively 6001 h i described in connection with the new method is reaches the same, and an immersion tank 3 conob iou As an example, the wirefrom which 15 taining a coating requiri ataleast some bale ties are to be fabricated is passed through h l a d th u which wire m be passed on the continuous furnace l; through the 'va'riably.

Its ay from the furnace t t h machine positionable tank-3, and so to the bale tie fabri-- e nk 3 1S ed y 081118189 4 80 that eating machine 2. The tank 3 is moved back and 20 it is a y positionable between the farm? forth respecting the furnace l until a position 20 I and the m chine! whereby it ay POSitiOned .is attained where the wire retains just sufllcient at such a distance from the'iurnace I that wire heat to heat the coating material to impart the v leaving the m is just not enough to right baking. Diflerent coating materials supv th ri h b ki t0 the particular coa e mateplied by diiier'ent manufacturers require different 2 T1811 tontainedgln the tank v amounts oi, baking, and the required flexibility wire Buides may be armed to accommodate these diflerentmaterials is-provarious elements oi the apparatus, and a tank vided by the apparatus; 1 u u g containing {mating fluid m be amused The fabricating machine! functionsto out and t atm machine v ='twist-the' wire so as to form bale ties having The new math for pmducmg' wire articles formed ends. Since this may mar or weaken the iz gg wfifi i g 3 ik d coating baked coating, the formed ends of the bale ties may .orme w e o 8 above or are then dipped into the tank 8, the latter conother apparatus and includes continuously an- Mining a mammal not requiring any-baking. healing wire from which the articles are to be This secbndm coatmgmay not 01mg so tenaj fi fg g g gq gg i iggi fg g gfi; ciously tothe'bal'e ties as does the baked coating 35 a while the latter still retains sufllcient heat from but It is my very-slight demts the'annealing to heat this material sufliciently the this is relatively immaterial" Y to efiect the baking required by the same, and There are a number of suitable coating mate- 40 Subsequently we m m that:

Sue fabrication naturall enai g g igz g or the We. the glycer'ol-phthalate or phenolic condensation res method further includes applying a secondary m a suitable o coating 01 a material not requiring any we Furthermore, there are different methods by tome Pomona of the we which are worked which the coating 'fluidmay be applied otherwise 45 during such fabrication. than by l flpr ying apparatus may.

The invention is particularly applicable to the be t u d 1 t tanks .3. 'I 'hen,-too, the prod n of bale 15 These are ordinal-11y inclination or thewire leaving the coating appamade from annealed wire and are subject to the mtus may V ried, for instance,- by-pr l iii t t they t wiryv easily when the inclined portion so that the coating fluid will 50 stored. "sometimes they are oiled, but they th n tend to flow slightly whereby a smoother and nmnat the mate ial to whi h they are ap more uniform coating results. v Although a specific embodiment of the inven- It is" obviousthat itwould be ideal ii. bale ties tion is disclosed in accordance with the'patent could be protected'against corrosion by a baked statutes, it is not intended tolimit itsscope'ex- 55 l. A method of producing bale ties protected against corrosion by a baked coating, including passing the wire iromwhich said ties are to be madefgthrough a continuous iurnace' and thus actly thereto, except as defined by the '2. A method of producing we ties protected claims. against corrosion by a baked coating, including I claim:- passing the wire from which said ties are to be EDMUND DILLON, 

